51, Report:
#130567
Posted Date:
Sep 27 2006
Merchants Credit Guide, Ken Hughes RIPOFF SCAM automated calls Chicago Illinois
Just another one to add to the pile. I'm not as lucky as some of the others, instead of receiving letters I receive automated calls early in the morning asking me to contact a Ken Hughes. After being fed up with these calls I decide to call them (from a phone other than my home line...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
52, Report:
#212999
Posted Date:
Sep 27 2006
Merchants Credit Guide Co. ripoff collections on paid and invalid (over 10 years old) debt Chicago Illinois
I received a letter from MCG last week. It had my father's name on it but my address. I get mail like that from time to time as our names are very similar and sound similar as well. The debt was supposedly for a newspaper account with the Chicago Tribune.
Having been a custome...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide Co.
Categories: Collection Agency's
53, Report:
#212804
Posted Date:
Sep 26 2006
Ken Hughes, Merchant Credit Guide Person saying he is Ken Hughes leaves voice messages daily including weekends saying it is urgent to call him. Chicago Illinois
A Ken Hughes on a recorded message leaves daily messages, including weekends, stating call is not a solicitation and urgent that I call. I have upon occasion actually answered the phone when one of these calls come through and no one is able to answer my who is calling or wait for ...
Entity
Ken Hughes, Merchant's Credit Guide
Categories: Telemarketers
54, Report:
#201223
Posted Date:
Sep 20 2006
Call Ken Hughes - Merchants Credit FISHING for BAnk of America account numbers - DO NOT ANSWER Chicago Illinois
A female voice has been calling lately from number
1-888-249-1037.
Apparently, many others (according to Internet research) have been contacted by this company, and everything I've seen indicates that they are trying to call and say they are trying to collect on a defaulted acco...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide Co.
Categories: Collection Agency's
55, Report:
#204256
Posted Date:
Sep 19 2006
Merchants Credit Guide ripoff Ignoring Cease & Desist letter Chicago Illinois
I sent Merchants Credit Guide a cease and desist letter which they received on Monday 7/31/2006. The letter was sent certified, return receipt requested. Unfortunately, I have never received anything in writing from them so my letter did not contain an account reference number. I al...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
56, Report:
#210180
Posted Date:
Sep 19 2006
Merchants Credit Guide - CFB Financial - Ken Hughes ripoff West Frankfort Illinois
Ken Hughes keeps calling my phone number five days a week and saying I need to call him. He will ring my phone number as many as ten times a day. My phone number is listed on the do not call lists. I can't tell Ken Hughes not to call my number anymore as he is just a recording.
...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide - CFB Financial - Ken Hughes
Categories: Telemarketers
57, Report:
#211535
Posted Date:
Sep 19 2006
Merchants Credit Guide, Ken Hughes RIPOFF SCAM Automated Calls Chicago IllinoisMerchants Credit Guide, Ken Hughes ripoff, scam, harrasing phone calls Chicago Illinois
I have recently received 3 calls from Ken Hughes (between 8/24/06- 9/13/06) with the same message. I have not called them back as I do not want to give them any information. I have not receivend any letters from them, If I do not receive any written correspondance from them, should...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide, Ken Hughes
Categories: Corrupt Companies
58, Report:
#210698
Posted Date:
Sep 13 2006
Ken Hughes, Merchant Credit Guide Collector Calling an Individual with No Debt! Chicago Illinois
THANK YOU FOR THIS SERVICE! I am another consumer (like many people on this site) who today received a threatening telephone call from Ken Hughes. I have zero blemishes on my credit (a score OVER 780!) and have never had an unpaid debt in my life.
These scare tactics are more...
Entity
Ken Hughes, Merchant Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
59, Report:
#209627
Posted Date:
Sep 07 2006
Merchants' Credit Guide ripoff fraudulent Billing Chicago Illinois
I recieved a letter from Merchants' Credit Guide demanding 1,604.28 on a student loan from 1990. I informed this company that that loan was paid off in 1995 but they refused to listen. They have been calling me at home and harresing me so I am sending all the informtion to the Attor...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
60, Report:
#208730
Posted Date:
Aug 31 2006
Merchants Credit Guide - Ken Hughes Ripoff Defraud Chicago Illinois
I keep getting voice mail that says It's important to call Ken Hughes at 888..., this is not a sales or marketing. Again, it's important to call Ken Hughes at 888... I keep getting bills from a SPRINT account that I never had. I lived in Martinsville Virginia and had Bellsouth for p...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide - Ken Hughes
Categories: Collection Agencies
61, Report:
#208130
Posted Date:
Aug 27 2006
KEN HUGHES ripoff HARRASSING Nationwide
Continual and HARASSING phone calls. This has been going on for quite some time as evidenced from other complaints concerning KEN HUGES. Our credit is perfect - 750 score and we continue to receive calls.
Phil
nacogdoches, TexasU.S.A.
Entity
KEN HUGHES
Categories: Corrupt Companies
62, Report:
#202904
Posted Date:
Jul 26 2006
Merchants' Credit Guide - CFB Financial Ill Traditional Industri ripoff dishonest fraudulent billing scam Chicago Illinois
After spending 15 minutes on the phone, trying to contact Merchants' Credit Guide, Co. (aka- CFB Financial Ill, LLC and Traditional Industri), I finally gave up waiting for someone to answer the phone.
They alledge that I owe $1,278.15 as per Ken Hughes, the signed Collection Age...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide - CFB Financial Ill - Traditional Industri
Categories: Collection Agency's
63, Report:
#202596
Posted Date:
Jul 25 2006
Merchants Credit Guide - Ken Hughes Demanding payment on an account that was paid off 13 years ago. ripoff Chicago Illinois
I have received 3 voice messages demanding that I call Ken Hughes at 888-249-1037 stating that it is not a soliciting call.
Did not state who he was with, so I disregarded first two messages. When I received the 3rd message I returned the call asking for Ken Hughes.
I was tol...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
64, Report:
#186012
Posted Date:
Jul 24 2006
Merchants' Credit Guide, NCO Portfolio Management HELP!! Chicago Illinois
I received a phone call from Ken Hughes and let it go to voicemail because I didn't recognize the phone number on the caller id. I was shocked at what sounded like a collection call on the message. I immediately googled the telephone number 888-249-4134 which they gave as the call...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
65, Report:
#202343
Posted Date:
Jul 22 2006
Merchants Credit Guide ripoff Chicago Illinois
Hi folks, I am trying to stop the telephone calls from Merchant Credit Guide, the infamous Ken Hughes, without getting deeper into their vermin-like grasp. I do not have any written communications from them and I have not returned any of their phone calls. I am absolutely sure that ...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
66, Report:
#201891
Posted Date:
Jul 19 2006
Merchant Credit Guide - Ken Hughes Ripoff Erroneous Threatening Phone Calls Chicago, Illinois
I received a very threatening and rude recorded phone message from Ken Hughes, Merchants Credit Guide Co., on 07/18/06 @ approx. 7:00 PM Mtn Time Zone. I phoned their toll-free ph. #888-249-4134 the next day, 07/19/06, 2 times. First time I spoke with a Mr. Lewis. My 2nd call was an...
Entity
Merchant Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
67, Report:
#201811
Posted Date:
Jul 19 2006
Merchants' Credit Guide Co Collection Scam claimed I owed them $1,664.82 on a debt from their alleged client Pinnacle Credit Services and originated from Saks & Company Chicago Illinois
Merchants' Credit Guide hit me with basically the same letter it sent to the previous poster, except the creditor and amount were different.
It claimed I owed them $1,664.82 on a debt from their alleged client Pinnacle Credit Services and originated from Saks & Company. They stat...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide Co
Categories: Collection Agency's
68, Report:
#200884
Posted Date:
Jul 15 2006
Merchants Credit Guide ripoff Not sure if I was ripped off I feel so STUPID Chicago Illinois
Help! I began receiving calls from Ken Hughes about 2 weeks ago. Paid no attention. I then received a letter stating that I owed $342.72 for an unpaid gas bill. I called MCG immediately as I have perfect credit and didn't want any black marks on it.
They had my SS# and a pre...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agencies
69, Report:
#200720
Posted Date:
Jul 13 2006
Ken Hughes ripoff Chicago Illinois
Ever since we moved into this house, and got our new phone number I keep getting phone calls stating that it is very important to call Ken Hughes @ 888-249-4134. This is not a whatever call I have never returned his call nor will I as I have no idea as to what the heck he is talki...
Entity
Ken Hughes
Categories: Telemarketers
70, Report:
#200303
Posted Date:
Jul 11 2006
Ken Hughes ripoff West Palm Beach Florida
Called on my home phone (left several a messages), a lady said to call Ken Hughes and it was urgent that I must return his call ASAP. She also stated this was not a sales or solicitation call. I didn't call him back (comes up Out Of Area). I looked up his name and number and found h...
Entity
Ken Hughes
Categories: Liars
71, Report:
#199711
Posted Date:
Jul 06 2006
Merchants' Credit Guide ripoff Is A SCAM Ken Hughes Is A FRAUD CRAZY they're still in business! Based In Chicago and Sending BOGUS Letters Chicago Illinois
WOW.
This is crazy. Merchant's Credit Guide Co is nutz!!!!!!
We also got a dunning letter demanding get this, $16,000.32. Supposedly their client is PINNACLE CREDIT SERVICES and the original creditor is BOFA. The only debt my husband has from BofA was a school loan which was ...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide - Ken Hughes
Categories: Collection Agencies
72, Report:
#199391
Posted Date:
Jul 04 2006
Merchants' Credit Guide ripoff NEVER USED THIS FINANCE COMPANY THAT THEY CLAIM I OWE CHICAGO Illinois
I received a letter from a collection agency (MCG) saying they were representing Pinnacle Credit Services (who had purchased my defaulted account from Household Finance ) I have never had an account thru HFC . When I called the number listed all I received was a constant hold be rig...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide Co.
Categories: Collection Agency's
73, Report:
#199124
Posted Date:
Jul 02 2006
Merchants Credit Guide, CFB Financial Watch Out For This Company Chicago Illinois
Wow, I never thought I'd be spending my holiday weekend (July 4th just around the corner) writing a rip-off report. But, I really got angry when an elderly relative (we'll call him Uncle Jim) got a letter recently from Merchants' Credit Guide Co stating that several thousand dollar...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide
Categories: Credit & Debt Services
74, Report:
#198791
Posted Date:
Jun 29 2006
Merchant Credit Guide - Ken Hughes ripoff Chicago Illinois
I have been getting calls from Merchant Credit Guide. They are inoging calls because they can not legally collect it. The statue of limitation for open account is 3 years in my state and legally they can not collect it by sueing me or harassing me to pay.
If this is happening to ...
Entity
Merchant Credit Guide - Ken Hughes
Categories: Collection Agency's
75, Report:
#198050
Posted Date:
Jun 26 2006
Merchants Credit Guide, Ken Hughes Continuous phone contact Ripoff Chicago Illinois
As I've read in multiple posts on this website, I am receiving ongoing calls from the infamous Ken Hughes, stating that It's important you contact Ken Hughes at 888-249-4134. This is not a solicitation or a sales call.Once again, it is very important you contact Ken Hughes at 888-24...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide
Categories: Telemarketers
